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Replete Roman violet

#881ed2
Notes

Replete Roman violet (#881ED2) is a true indigo with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (275°, 75%, 47%) places it in the balanced band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary lime. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#881ed2
RGB
rgb(136, 30, 210)
HSL
hsl(275, 75%, 47%)
HWB
hwb(275 12% 18%)
OKLCH
oklch(50.9% 0.245 305.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4899 0.1548 0.7930)
HSV
hsv(275, 86%, 82%)
LAB
lab(39.27% 69.92 -70.37)
LCH
lch(39.27% 99.20 314.81)
CMYK
cmyk(35%, 86%, 0%, 18%)

Etymology

Replete
adjective

Latin replētus, filled — past-participle of replēre. As a color modifier, replete implies a saturated-and-fully-pigmented quality where the hue is completely loaded with its source pigment. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to brimming and suffused in usage.

Roman
modifier

Latin Romanus, of-Rome. As a color modifier, roman implies an empire-built-and-classical quality, the visual register of Roman-Imperial hand-laid pavement-and-fresco-and-bronze-and-marble Republican-Imperial classical surfaces under Mediterranean-Roman-Imperial classical-architecture afternoon light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to etruscan and hellenic in usage.

violet
noun

Viola odorata, the European sweet violet — small, fragrant, and the original meaning of the color name in English (the Violet of the rainbow). The color refers to a fresh sweet violet blossom in late winter: a saturated, slightly red-shifted deep blue-purple with the matte finish of small five-petaled flower. Cooler than amethyst, warmer than indigo, with the perfumed weight of a flower used in Roman garlands and Victorian eau de toilette.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

Variations

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#881ed2
Original
#005ad7
Protanopia
#005dcf
Deuteranopia
#79547d
Tritanopia
#424242
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon White
6.64:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
3.16:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##881ED2
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4899 0.1548 0.7930)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.245

This color is chromatic enough that authoring it as P3 native (instead of clamping to sRGB) gives a perceptibly more saturated render on wide-gamut displays — modern Macs, iPhones, iPads, and most recent OLED laptops.

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